EvilNed
22-Apr-2006, 03:32 PM
I just rewatched Blade 1 and 2 and it strikes me how different they are. Even the main character Blade is different. As are the vampires!
In the first film, Blade was more of an animal. He sliced up and ****ed up anyone he could to get to his goal. Heck, he even considered letting that asian kid die just so he could kill Deacon Frost. In the second film, he was more of a show-off. Remember that film "White men can't jump" when Woodie Harrelson kept complaining about how Wesley Snipes would rather look good than win the game? Well, that's how it is in Blade 2. Blade would rather look good than actually do anything. He constantly does a bunch of fancy moves with his sword, even when nobody is watching! Why the heck did he do that?
The vampires in both films are also different. In the first film, they are much tougher to kill. You have to shoot them in the heart or brain with a silver bullet or they'd just feel pain. In the second film this is disregarded completly: Blade shoots several vampires through the stomach and they die instantly. It's like instant contact with silver will kill them.
Overall, I consider Stephen Norrington, the guy who did the first film, to be somewhat of an action genius. Most people might think The Matrix was the first film to introduce slow motion bullets and quick, slick karate action to Hollywood but Blade all that and came several years before The Matrix did. Blade 2 took everything Norrington did and stomped on it. Bullettime is used in most every scene, the action scenes consist of a bunch of quick close ups so you never really get what's going on (Much like those new Star Wars films). There's more action, but it's definetly not on par with the one in the first film.
Also, the film is ****ing filled with stupid plotholes. In the end Whistler knocks out a vampire, one of the main vampires actually, and then... what does he do? He crawls down the ventilation... With a silver sword. Whistler, hello, you could have killed that guy right there with no hassle whatsoever and you would have saved Blade a ****load of trouble! I mean, even Kris Kristofferson must have thought that was stupid becuase it's so plain obvious.
I just can't get over how bad Blade 2 is, when Blade 1 was pretty damn good. It was slick, stylish, it had character and Wesley Snipes was cool. Blade 2 is one big action train, just like Star Wars Episode 3, and one other thing it shares with that film is that the action sucks. They also turned Blade 2 into some kind of MTV generation action flick for people with no attention span. The character Scud? So annoying, going around tossing around rap slang names. "Hey B?" "Hey W?". Why not just say BLADE and WHISTLER, idiot? Also quit the smoking. Watching him smoke is just as annoying as watching Lars Ulrich chew gum (Which he does all the time). Blade 1 was much more mature and didn't feature any hip rap music whenever the main characters walked down the street in slow motion. What's the deal with combining rap music with kung fu anyway?
Guillermo Del Toro is a big douchebag. I'm never going to watch Hellboy.
Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system. I haven't seen Blade 3 yet, but since it stars Ryan Reynolds and Triple H I think I'll steer clear of it.
In the first film, Blade was more of an animal. He sliced up and ****ed up anyone he could to get to his goal. Heck, he even considered letting that asian kid die just so he could kill Deacon Frost. In the second film, he was more of a show-off. Remember that film "White men can't jump" when Woodie Harrelson kept complaining about how Wesley Snipes would rather look good than win the game? Well, that's how it is in Blade 2. Blade would rather look good than actually do anything. He constantly does a bunch of fancy moves with his sword, even when nobody is watching! Why the heck did he do that?
The vampires in both films are also different. In the first film, they are much tougher to kill. You have to shoot them in the heart or brain with a silver bullet or they'd just feel pain. In the second film this is disregarded completly: Blade shoots several vampires through the stomach and they die instantly. It's like instant contact with silver will kill them.
Overall, I consider Stephen Norrington, the guy who did the first film, to be somewhat of an action genius. Most people might think The Matrix was the first film to introduce slow motion bullets and quick, slick karate action to Hollywood but Blade all that and came several years before The Matrix did. Blade 2 took everything Norrington did and stomped on it. Bullettime is used in most every scene, the action scenes consist of a bunch of quick close ups so you never really get what's going on (Much like those new Star Wars films). There's more action, but it's definetly not on par with the one in the first film.
Also, the film is ****ing filled with stupid plotholes. In the end Whistler knocks out a vampire, one of the main vampires actually, and then... what does he do? He crawls down the ventilation... With a silver sword. Whistler, hello, you could have killed that guy right there with no hassle whatsoever and you would have saved Blade a ****load of trouble! I mean, even Kris Kristofferson must have thought that was stupid becuase it's so plain obvious.
I just can't get over how bad Blade 2 is, when Blade 1 was pretty damn good. It was slick, stylish, it had character and Wesley Snipes was cool. Blade 2 is one big action train, just like Star Wars Episode 3, and one other thing it shares with that film is that the action sucks. They also turned Blade 2 into some kind of MTV generation action flick for people with no attention span. The character Scud? So annoying, going around tossing around rap slang names. "Hey B?" "Hey W?". Why not just say BLADE and WHISTLER, idiot? Also quit the smoking. Watching him smoke is just as annoying as watching Lars Ulrich chew gum (Which he does all the time). Blade 1 was much more mature and didn't feature any hip rap music whenever the main characters walked down the street in slow motion. What's the deal with combining rap music with kung fu anyway?
Guillermo Del Toro is a big douchebag. I'm never going to watch Hellboy.
Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system. I haven't seen Blade 3 yet, but since it stars Ryan Reynolds and Triple H I think I'll steer clear of it.